Hi, I signed up for a seminar in Ontario, CA with speaker Than Merrill. I got the idea to do so from a TV. commercial . Of course the interviews shown on TV. are fake. Its a no brainier that there are countless scamme...

As the title says, I'm new to the area. I just moved here from northern Arizona. I own a carpet cleaning business in Flagstaff,AZ.  I was a Realtor there part time as well and now I'm full time here in Texas. I've bee...

I've been working with investors for about 4-5 months, since i got my real estate license. While i learn from my list of investors and the way they flip or rent the properties they buy from me, I'm still looking to gr...

Hi Everybody!My name is Benjamin Lin and I am new to the world of real estate investing. I am in my mid-30s, and started learning about investing about 6 months ago. I started with reading the BiggerPockets forums, an...

I have over $500k in equity with my primary residence and feel like I should be using it to get into real estate investing, but have no idea how to get started.  How can I use that equity to buy a rental property?Than...

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I'm new to the game and would greatly appreciate some advice on what you pros would do to maximize return on cash given my resources and current situation. I'm in the DFW market with at least 120k cas...

I am still having a tough time understanding 'cashing out the appreciation' of a house - I still don't fully understand how it works, but I was wondering, does anyone here live off of that? IE - buy property for $150...

I have an interesting question.   It relates to the questions many people who have asked this question:Pay off existing debt vs. using that money to invest....it's a popular question.What about a twist on that questio...

Hi All,This is my first ever post on Bigger Pockets and marks an exciting time for me. I am a commercial real estate analyst living and working in Santa Monica, CA. For about 6 months now I have been absorbing any edu...

We get asked a lot of questions on note investing, and we always are assisting newer investors on what note investing is. There are a lot of other really smart people on BP in this group as well who can answer questio...